Milton Roemer was born in Paterson, NJ, March 24, 1916, son of Jacob and Mary
(Rabinowitz) Roemer. He received his BA from Cornell University (1936), his MD from New
York University (1940), and an MPH from the University of Michigan (1943). He interned at
Barnert Memorial Hospital, in Paterson (1940-1941), was with the New Jersey Health
Department from 1941 and 1942, and from 1943 to 1948 with the U. S. Public Health Service
in Washington, DC.

Dr. Roemer served as a member of the faculty of Yale University Medical School from 1949
to 1951 and with the World Health Organization in Geneva from 1951 to 1952. He spent
1953-1956 with the Saskatchewan Health Department, and from 1957-1961 was on the Cornell
University faculty. In 1962 he accepted an appointment as professor of health
administration at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health,
where he has done much noteworthy work relative to health insurance plans and HMOs.

He is the author of many articles and books; most notable among the latter are
Health Care Systems in World Perspective (1976),
Comparative
National Policies on Health Care
(1977), and
Ambulatory Health Services in
America
(1981).